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3-day AU-IBAR Training Workshop on Strengthening Capacity for Ocean Governance opens at UCC

3-day AU-IBAR Training Workshop on Strengthening Capacity for Ocean Governance opens at UCC

29 Jun, 2022 By DIS

A three-day training workshop on Strengthening Capacity for Ocean Governance and Negotiating Fair and Sustainable Fisheries Access Arrangements in Africa has opened at the University of Cape Coast(UCC).

 

The workshop is being organized by the African Union-InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) in collaboration with the Africa Union(AU) Centre of Excellence in Marine Fisheries and Coastal Zone Management at UCC.

 

The purpose of the three-day training workshop is to equip selected African Fisheries administrators with the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding of Oceans Governance that will contribute to building a sustainable core of experts.

 

It is also aimed at enhancing the ability of participants to successfully negotiate for granting access to fishing fleets, processing technologies, as well as related fisheries investments in order to promote equitable and sustainable access agreements in Africa.

Group photo of participants in the training workshop

 

The programme has converged participants from Kenya, Sudan, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Senegal, Tunisia, Djibouti, Mozambique, Madagascar, Ghana, AU-IBAR, amongst others. Other participants joined the workshop remotely.

 

Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof Rosemond Boohene, who opened the ceremony, lauded the African Union for creating the Centre of Excellence under the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at UCC. 

 

She said the workshop would "enormously benefit African Union member states in improving food security, livelihoods and wealth creation in sustainable fisheries and aquaculture."

 

 

Prof Boohene, who chaired the event, was of the hope that the workshop would be beneficial to member countries since they would share ideas based on their common goals to help develop and promote best practices to sustain the sector.

Pro VC of UCC, Prof. Rosemond Boohene, opening the workshop

 

The Pro Vice-Chancellor commended participants for responding positively to the workshop and said at the end, participants would have a positive direction to properly steer the affairs of the industry.

 

In her remarks, the Representative of AU-IBAR, Madam Patricia Lumba, indicated that the AU had developed a Policy Framework and Reform Strategy (PFRS) for fisheries and aquaculture in Africa to curb exploitation.

 

According to her, the PFRS incorporated best practices for sustainable fisheries management and responsible aquaculture development which had been identified as priorities by stakeholders.

 

 

She added that over exploitation of fish stock in Africa by foreign fishing vessels had resulted in the destruction of the marine ecosystem and bio-diversity. She observed that the industry contributed substantially to the African economy, which offered decent jobs and sustained livelihoods.

Representative of AU-IBAR, Madam Patricia Lumba addressing participants

 

Madam Lumba stressed that "well-managed oceans are crucial for achieving sustainable development and a critical component of the Africa integrated marine strategy that contributes to Agenda 2063 of the AU."

 

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC

Tacoma Education Foundation Donates to Imam Khomeini Islamic Basic School

Tacoma Education Foundation Donates to Imam Khomeini Islamic Basic School

28 Jun, 2022 By DIS
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Tacoma Education Foundation, has donated teaching and learning materials to Imam Khomeini Islamic Basic School situated at Amamoma, one of the communities surrounding the University of Cape Coast. The items included books, pencils, erasers and sharpeners. The Foundation seeks to support deprived schools with books and other learning materials to promote teaching and learning. During the presentation, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tacoma Education Foundation, Dr. Benjamin Aboagye, said the gesture was to aid teaching and learning in the school. Dr. Aboagye, who is also a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Forensic Sciences, University of Cape Coast, said the Foundation had interest in supporting community-based schools in deprived areas of the Central Region.

 

CEO-Tacoma Education Foundation, Dr. Benjamin Aboagye making the presentation to head teacher of the School, Mr. Abubakar Tijjani 

 

He called on authorities of the School to handle the books with care so as future generations could make use of them since books were the biggest heritage any generation could leave for its people. The Senior Lecturer expressed gratitude to a philanthropist, Mr. Kojo Kwakye, whose generosity towards the NGO made the donation see the light of day. For his part, the Head Teacher of the School, Mr. Abubakar Tijjani, commended the NGO for the donation and pledged to maintain the books for future students.
Some pupils of the school with the donated books 

 

He urged other philanthropists and corporate bodies to emulate the gesture of the NGO to support the development of education. 

 

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC
Prof Rosemond Boohene, UCC-Pro VC and, Dr. Nzozi Taffe, Assistant Vice-President for Global Affairs of UCONN

UCC, Connecticut University Commit to Deepen Academic Collaboration

28 Jun, 2022 By DIS

The University of Cape Coast, UCC, and the University of Connecticut, UCONN, USA, have resolved to step up academic cooperation that will be beneficial to each party.

In view of this, a horde of students from the University of Connecticut would pay a reciprocal visit to UCC in January 2023 to learn at first-hand the academic activities in the University.

The Assistant Vice-President for Global Affairs of UCONN, Dr. Nzozi Taffe, made the disclosure when she led a four-member delegation to pay a courtesy visit on the Pro Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Rosemond Boohene.

Dr. Taffe described the relationship between UCC and UCONN as very cordial and indicated that UCONN would work assiduously to ensure the expected outcome contained in the Memorandum of Understanding signed between UCONN and UCC a few years ago would come to fruition.

Receiving the delegation, Prof. Boohene said UCC was ready to share experiences with UCONN in the areas of academic cooperation.

She stressed that UCC was looking forward to receiving the visiting students and called on UCONN to collaborate with UCC on staff exchange programmes.

Prof Rosemond Boohene, and, Dr. Nzozi Taffe, in a group photo with members of the delegation

 

Prof. Boohene seized the chance to champion community engagement to the delegation which, according to her, was crucial to the forward match of every university.

“… We want to make sure that at the end of the day, the University is felt within the community,” she said, explaining to the delegation the positive impacts of community engagement to community members, especially the girl-child.

The UCONN delegation was made up of the Executive Director of the Centre for Undergraduate Education, Mr. David T. Ouimette; the Associate Director, Mrs. Gabriella Sontoro, and Africa Resident Representative, Faata Faleera Adam.

The Vice- Dean of the Office for International Relations, Dr. Bert Boadi Kusi was present at the meeting.

 

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC

Pro Vice-Chancellor Confers with Dr. Timothy Wingert

Pro Vice-Chancellor Confers with Dr. Timothy Wingert

28 Jun, 2022 By DIS

The Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. Mrs. Rosemond Boohene, has received in audience a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Timothy A. Wingert, from the University of Incarnate, USA.

The visit by Dr. Wingert formed part of efforts aimed at deepening academic ties and strengthening the existing collaboration between University of Incarnate and UCC through the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences (DOVS).

In his remark, Dr. Wingert expressed gratitude to UCC for the wonderful hospitality and said the two institutions would share best practices in optometry.

For her part, Prof. Boohene welcomed Dr. Wingert to the University and said since the running of optometry in UCC, access to primary eye care had improved considerably in Ghana.

She pointed out that the importance of eye health could not be overemphasized and lauded the existing collaboration between the two Universities.

The Vice Dean of the Office of International Relations, Dr. Bert Boadi Kusi and the Clinic Coordinator at DOVS, Dr. Charles Darko-Takyi, accompanied Dr. Wingert on the visit.

Prof Boohene (2nd from left) and Dr Wingert in a photo with Dr. Bert Boadi Kusi (right)

In another development, a delegation from the International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) has paid a courtesy call on the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rosemond Boohene, at her office.

The visit, according to the leader of the delegation, Prof. Prem Bindraban, was to discuss the existing partnership between IFDC and the Department of Geography and Regional Planning.

 

In her response, Prof. Boohene thanked the delegation for the visit and urged the IFDC to continually assist the Department.

Prof. Boohene (3rd from right) and Prof. Prem Bindraban (4th from left) in a group photo with the delegation

Present at the meeting was the Head of the Department, Prof. Benjamin Kofi Nyarko.

 

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC

Section of participants of the training

UCC Sandwich Student Nurses trained on essence of Mentorship

24 Jun, 2022 By DIS

The School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Cape Coast has organised a day’s workshop for sandwich student nurses on the topic, “Developing a Mentoring Relationship".

The training was to promote the career success of the participants, impact their chosen career path, improve job satisfaction and compensation, and optimize research productivity.

 

The facilitator of the workshop, Prof. Tina Reid, a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Salisbury, USA took participants through the topic.

 

Giving her opening remarks, the Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dr. Nancy I. Ebu Enyan passionately appealed to nurses and midwives to restore the dented and sunken image of the nursing and midwifery profession through practice of mentorship.

"You can all attest to the fact that the image of the Ghanaian nurse and midwife is not something that we can all boast of. But I believe that with effective mentorship, we should be able to change the narrative," she indicated.

 

Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery-UCC, Dr. Nancy I. Ebu Enyan

 

She pointed out the Ministry of Health had developed a National Policy guideline for Nursing and Midwifery Professional Mentorship programme to improve the career pathways of nurses and midwives.

 

The Dean also advised nurses and midwives to practice with the greatest degree of professionalism and ethical standards, to impact positively on the lives of the people.

 

She said nurses and midwives could add value to what they do and develop a good career if they got the right people to learn from.

 

In her presentation, the facilitator of the workshop, Prof. Tina Reid asked nurses to seek for the right people to mentor them in their professional career development. She noted mentors were essential in developing great future nurses, nurse leaders and nurse educators.

 

Prof. Reid cautioned nurses that mentorship was not an avenue to make money, but a modest way to give back to society. She appealed to the student nurses not to graduate school before indulging in mentorship and encouraged them to begin mentorship in earnest.

 

"You are young right now, but just imagine after you have been in the profession for a long period of time and you are ready to retire, who is going to replace you?", Prof. Reid rhetorically asked the student nurses.

 

Prof. Tina Reid, a Fulbright Scholar from University of Salisbury, USA

 

Prof Reid cited some barriers of mentoring as the mismatched expectations between mentor and mentee, lack of available mentors, time, resources and compensation for mentors, amongst others.

 

The Fulbright Scholar admonished nurses to be compassionate and encourage patients through their illnesses.

 

"It is not about treating your patients how you want to be treated but treat them how they want to be treated," she noted and called on them to strive to be great nurses and not average nurses.

 

 

A participant in the workshop asking a question

 

Prof. Reid mentioned increased self-confidence, increased self-awareness, exposure to new and different perspectives, among others, as benefits of mentees.

 

The workshop, held at the School of Medical Sciences Auditorium-UCC, was chaired by the Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dr. Nancy I. Ebu Enyan.

 

Source: Documentation and information Section-UCC

 

 

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